30 bài mẫu writing band 9 của thầy simon 2017

The graph below shows the amounts of waste produced by three companies over a period of 15 years.. While companies A and B saw waste output fall over the 15-year period, the amount of wa

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The diagram below shows the life cycle of a salmon, from egg to adult fish

The diagram illustrates the stages in the life of the salmon, from birth to maturity

It is clear that there are six* main stages as the salmon develops from egg to mature

adult We can also see that salmon spend time in three distinct locations during the

cycle, moving from river to estuary to ocean and then back upstream

Salmon begin their lives in rivers where the adult fish lay and incubate their eggs After

emerging from eggs, the young salmon spend the next stage of their lives being reared

in freshwater areas Then, at some point in their development, the fish swim

downstream to river estuaries where rearing continues

Following the estuary rearing period, the maturing salmon migrate to the ocean, where

they eventually become fully grown adults Finally, the adult fish travel back upstream to

spawning areas of rivers; here they reproduce and lay their eggs, and the life cycle

begins anew

(154 words, band 9)

The chart below shows the results of a survey of people who visited four types of

tourist attraction in Britain in the year 1999

The pie chart compares figures for visitors to four categories of tourist attraction and to

five different theme parks in Britain in 1999

It is clear that theme parks and museums / galleries were the two most popular types of

tourist attraction in that year Blackpool Pleasure Beach received by far the highest

proportion of visitors in the theme park sector

Looking at the information in more detail, we can see that 38% of the surveyed visitors

went to a theme park, and 37% of them went to a museum or gallery By contrast,

historic houses and monuments were visited by only 16% of the sample, while wildlife

parks and zoos were the least popular of the four types of tourist attraction, with only

9% of visitors

In the theme park sector, almost half of the people surveyed (47%) had been to

Blackpool Pleasure Beach Alton Towers was the second most popular amusement

park, with 17% of the sample, followed by Pleasureland in Southport, with 16% Finally,

Chessington World of Adventures and Legoland Windsor had each welcomed 10% of

the surveyed visitors

(181 words, band 9)

The graph below shows the amounts of waste produced by three companies over

a period of 15 years

The line graph compares three companies in terms of their waste output between the

years 2000 and 2015

It is clear that there were significant changes in the amounts of waste produced by all

three companies shown on the graph While companies A and B saw waste output fall

over the 15-year period, the amount of waste produced by company C increased

considerably

In 2000, company A produced 12 tonnes of waste, while companies B and C produced

around 8 tonnes and 4 tonnes of waste material respectively Over the following 5

years, the waste output of companies B and C rose by around 2 tonnes, but the figure

for company A fell by approximately 1 tonne

From 2005 to 2015, company A cut waste production by roughly 3 tonnes, and

company B reduced its waste by around 7 tonnes By contrast, company C saw an

increase in waste production of approximately 4 tonnes over the same 10-year period

By 2015, company C’s waste output had risen to 10 tonnes, while the respective

amounts of waste from companies A and B had dropped to 8 tonnes and only 3 tonnes

(192 words, band 9)

The first chart below gives information about the money spent by British parents

on their children’s sports between 2008 and 2014 The second chart shows the

number of children who participated in three sports in Britain over the same time

period

The line graphs show the average monthly amount that parents in Britain spent on their

children’s sporting activities and the number of British children who took part in three

different sports from 2008 to 2014

It is clear that parents spent more money each year on their children’s participation in

sports over the six-year period In terms of the number of children taking part, football

was significantly more popular than athletics and swimming

In 2008, British parents spent an average of around £20 per month on their children’s

sporting activities Parents’ spending on children’s sports increased gradually over the

following six years, and by 2014 the average monthly amount had risen to just over £30

Looking at participation numbers, in 2008 approximately 8 million British children played

football, while only 2 million children were enrolled in swimming clubs and less than 1

million practised athletics The figures for football participation remained relatively stable

over the following 6 years By contrast, participation in swimming almost doubled, to

nearly 4 million children, and there was a near fivefold increase in the number of

children doing athletics

(185 words, band 9)

The charts below show the results of a questionnaire that asked visitors to the

Parkway Hotel how they rated the hotel's customer service The same

questionnaire was given to 100 guests in the years 2005 and 2010

The pie charts compare visitors’ responses to a survey about customer service at the

Parkway Hotel in 2005 and in 2010

It is clear that overall customer satisfaction increased considerably from 2005 to 2010

While most hotel guests rated customer service as satisfactory or poor in 2005, a clear

majority described the hotel’s service as good or excellent in 2010

Looking at the positive responses first, in 2005 only 5% of the hotel’s visitors rated its

customer service as excellent, but this figure rose to 28% in 2010 Furthermore, while

only 14% of guests described customer service in the hotel as good in 2005, almost

three times as many people gave this rating five years later

With regard to negative feedback, the proportion of guests who considered the hotel’s

customer service to be poor fell from 21% in 2005 to only 12% in 2010 Similarly, the

proportion of people who thought customer service was very poor dropped from 15% to

only 4% over the 5-year period Finally, a fall in the number of ‘satisfactory’ ratings in

2010 reflects the fact that more people gave positive responses to the survey in that

year

(193 words, band 9)

The pie charts below compare water usage in San Diego, California and the rest

of the world

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The pie charts give information about the water used for residential, industrial and

agricultural purposes in San Diego County, California, and the world as a whole

It is noticeable that more water is consumed by homes than by industry or agriculture in

the two American regions By contrast, agriculture accounts for the vast majority of

water used worldwide

In San Diego County and California State, residential water consumption accounts for

60% and 39% of total water usage By contrast, a mere 8% of the water used globally

goes to homes The opposite trend can be seen when we look at water consumption for

agriculture This accounts for a massive 69% of global water use, but only 17% and

28% of water usage in San Diego and California respectively

Such dramatic differences are not seen when we compare the figures for industrial

water use The same proportion of water (23%) is used by industry in San Diego and

worldwide, while the figure for California is 10% higher, at 33%

(168 words, band 9)

The chart below shows the total number of minutes (in billions) of telephone calls

in the UK, divided into three categories, from 1995-2002

The bar chart compares the amount of time spent by people in the UK on three different

types of phone call between 1995 and 2002

It is clear that calls made via local, fixed lines were the most popular type, in terms of

overall usage, throughout the period shown The lowest figures on the chart are for

mobile calls, but this category also saw the most dramatic increase in user minutes

In 1995, people in the UK used fixed lines for a total of just over 70 billion minutes for

local calls, and about half of that amount of time for national or international calls By

contrast, mobile phones were only used for around 4 billion minutes Over the following

four years, the figures for all three types of phone call increased steadily

By 1999, the amount of time spent on local calls using landlines had reached a peak at

90 billion minutes Subsequently, the figure for this category fell, but the rise in the other

two types of phone call continued In 2002, the number of minutes of national /

international landline calls passed 60 billion, while the figure for mobiles rose to around

45 billion minutes

(197 words, band 9)

The bar chart below shows the proportions of English men and women of

different ages who were living alone in 2011 The pie chart compares the numbers

of bedrooms in these one-person households

Living alone in England by age and gender, 2011

Number of bedrooms in one-person households (England, 2011)

The two charts give information about single-occupant households in England in the

year 2011 The bar chart compares figures for occupants' age and gender, and the pie

chart shows data about the number of bedrooms in these homes

Overall, females made up a higher proportion of people living alone than males, and this

difference is particularly noticeable in the older age categories We can also see that the

most common number of bedrooms in a single-occupant home was two

A significant majority of the people aged 65 or over who were living alone in England in

2011 were female Women made up around 72% of single occupants aged 75 to 84,

and 76% of those aged 85 or over By contrast, among younger adults the figures for

males were higher For example, in the 35-49 age category, men accounted for nearly

65% of people living alone

In the same year, 35.4% of one-person households in England had two bedrooms,

while one-bedroom and three-bedroom homes accounted for 28% and 29.8% of the

total Under 7% of single-occupant homes had four or more bedrooms

(189 words, band 9)

The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*-labelled coffee and

bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries

The tables show the amount of money spent on Fairtrade coffee and bananas in two

separate years in the UK, Switzerland, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden

It is clear that sales of Fairtrade coffee rose in all five European countries from 1999 to

2004, but sales of Fairtrade bananas only went up in three out of the five countries

Overall, the UK saw by far the highest levels of spending on the two products

In 1999, Switzerland had the highest sales of Fairtrade coffee, at €3 million, while

revenue from Fairtrade bananas was highest in the UK, at €15 million By 2004,

however, sales of Fairtrade coffee in the UK had risen to €20 million, and this was over

three times higher than Switzerland’s sales figure for Fairtrade coffee in that year The

year 2004 also saw dramatic increases in the money spent on Fairtrade bananas in the

UK and Switzerland, with revenues rising by €32 million and €4.5 million respectively

Sales of the two Fairtrade products were far lower in Denmark, Belgium and Sweden

Small increases in sales of Fairtrade coffee can be seen, but revenue remained at €2

million or below in all three countries in both years Finally, it is noticeable that the

money spent on Fairtrade bananas actually fell in Belgium and Sweden

The diagrams below show the site of a school in 2004 and the plan for changes to

the school site in 2024

(Source: Official IELTS Practice Materials 2)

The two pictures compare the layout of a school as it was in the year 2004 with a

proposed site design for the year 2024

It is clear that the main change for 2024 involves the addition of a new school building

The school will then be able to accommodate a considerably larger number of students

In 2004, there were 600 pupils attending the school, and the two school buildings were

separated by a path running from the main entrance to the sports field By 2024, it is

expected that there will be 1000 pupils, and a third building will have been constructed

Furthermore, the plan is to join the two original buildings together, creating a shorter

path that links the buildings only

As the third building and a second car park will be built on the site of the original sports

field, a new, smaller sports field will need to be laid A new road will also be built from

the main entrance to the second car park Finally, no changes will be made to the main

entrance and original car park

(183 words, band 9)

The charts below compare the age structure of the populations of France and

India in 1984

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The two charts compare the populations of France and India in terms of age distribution

by gender in the year 1984

It is clear that the population of India was younger than that of France in 1984, with a

noticeably larger proportion of people aged under 20 France, on the other hand, had a

significantly larger percentage of elderly inhabitants

In India, close to 14% of people were aged 5 or under, and each five-year age bracket

above this contained an increasingly smaller proportion of the population France’s

population, by contrast, was more evenly distributed across the age ranges, with similar

figures (around 7% to 8% of all people) for each five-year cohort between the ages of 0

and 40 Somewhere between 10% and 15% of all French people were aged 70 or older,

but the equivalent figure for India was only 2%

Looking more closely at gender, there was a noticeably higher proportion of French

women than men in every cohort from age 50 upwards For example, almost 3% of

French 70- to 75-year-olds were women, while just under 2% were men No significant

gender differences can be seen on the Indian population chart

(199 words, band 9)

The diagrams below show how houses can be protected in areas which are prone

to flooding

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The diagrams compare two different methods of defence for homes which are at risk of

being flooded

The key difference between the diagrams is that they show flood protection with and

without a stopbank In either case, the at-risk home is raised on stilts above ground

level

The first diagram shows how a stopbank acts as a flood barrier to stop river water from

flooding homes The stopbank is a small mound of land next to the river that is higher

than the 100-year flood level, and prevents the river from bursting its banks Nearby

houses can be built on stilts to prevent flooding from rainwater, and a floodgate beneath

the stopbank can be opened to allow this ‘ponding’ to drain off into the river

When there is no stopbank, as shown in the second diagram, there will be nothing to

stop the river from flooding In this case, the solution is to put buildings on stilts The

height of the stilts is measured so that the floor of the house is 300mm above the

100-year flood level This measurement is called the ‘freeboard’

The table below shows the amount of waste production (in millions of tonnes) in

six different countries over a twenty-year period

The chart compares the amounts of waste that were produced in six countries in the

years 1980, 1990 and 2000

In each of these years, the US produced more waste than Ireland, Japan, Korea,

Poland and Portugal combined It is also noticeable that Korea was the only country that

managed to reduce its waste output by the year 2000

Between 1980 and 2000, waste production in the US rose from 131 to 192 million

tonnes, and rising trends were also seen in Japan, Poland and Portugal Japan’s waste

output increased from 28 to 53 million tonnes, while Poland and Portugal saw waste

totals increase from 4 to 6.6 and from 2 to 5 million tonnes respectively

The trends for Ireland and Korea were noticeably different from those described above

In Ireland, waste production increased more than eightfold, from only 0.6 million tonnes

in 1980 to 5 million tonnes in 2000 Korea, by contrast, cut its waste output by 12 million

tonnes between 1990 and 2000